Debian-installer-version:
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22 June 2004
$ md5sum sarge-i386-netinst.iso
5db3c8d500380d664c748356910a6d2e sarge-i386-netinst.iso
(md5sum is okay)
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Install Date:
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23 June 2004
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Method:
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netinst (CD)
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Hardware:
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Athlon 2200 XP
ASUS A7N8X (Motherboard)
ASUS V8420 - NVIDIA GeForce 4 (Video)
512 MB RAM
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Base System Installation Checklist:
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Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [O]**
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
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Comments:
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There appears to be some problem with the time zone settings. I set the
clock to UTC and my time zone to Eastern (Canada). Then I noticed... the
time that is displayed is UTC.
I then poked around in the /etc files and another directory I found:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/zoneinfo$ ls -lat localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 2004-06-23 20:07 localtime -> /etc/localtime
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The above is RED (broken link) -- '/etc/localtime' does NOT exist--
I suspect this is an install quirk!
It is annoying because KDE seems to be happy setting my time zone and
I've figured out that this setting appears in "/etc/timezone" --but it
doesn't actually do much; if I run "date" (at the command line) it tells
me my time zone is 'UTC' (which it isn't).
The way I fixed this is:
# apt-cache show timezoneconf
# dpkg-reconfigure timezoneconf
After I ran "dpkg-reconfigure timezoneconf" I found a "/etc/localtime"
file (or rather more precisely-- a symbolic link into
"/usr/share/zoneinfo/Canada/Eastern").
The final step was doing a sync with the local time server:
# apt-get install ntpdate
# ntpdate tick.utoronto.ca
(set time using utoronto time server)
(If it isn't there already... a nice one for the installer wish-list is
-- asking the user if they want to sync to a local time server --and
having a nice list of time servers to choose from).
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Any case, it was nice to see that the normal user I created was put
into the group "audio" -- the sound worked without me having to
do anything. :-) When I first installed Debian last August, I remember
being frustrated about the sound not working. Later I read a couple
of people on slashdot had the same problem... I think with the
new installer many newbies will be happy their sound works. :-)
Cheers,
Michael
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